> On Sun, 05 Nov 2006, Taral wrote: >> udev is used on all of my systems, and I am currently custom-building >> gnupg to remove the makedev dependency. >> >> Please fix this problem. > > There is no problem. Having makedev installed is a good idea, even when > you have udev.
That may or may not hold true, but in any case, it does *not* fall to gnupg to decide that having one particular device management system installed "is a good idea". gnupg added a dependency on makedev in 1999 to ensure that /dev/urandom exists. As new systems that create and manage devices like /dev/urandom came up, the dependency grep more alternatives. I would tend to think that a modern system without /dev/urandom seems broken, and that a dependency no longer proves necessary. However, if the dependency still needs to exist for some reason, then udev certainly satisfies it by providing a /dev/urandom. - Josh Triplett
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